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Rats previously trained to push aside a stimulus card in order to gain access to an area of safety showed a marked impairment of the habit following lesions to either the corpus striatum, anterior thalamus, ventromedial thalamus, lateral hypothalamus, subthalamus, prerubral area, substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, cerebral peduncle, or pontine reticular formation. Lesions to other brainstem areas had no deleterious effects on the card displacement habit.
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the Graduate Council on Research. Louisiana State University.
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Thompson, R. Card displacement response as affected by brainstem lesions in the rat. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 8, 103–104 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335094
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